Berkeley v. USMC part 3
As I noted earlier, The Berkeley City Council withdrew their slightly impolite letter to the USMC recruitment office in Berkeley BEFORE THEY EVEN SENT IT.
Well, that just isn't good enough for the right-wing fucks in Sacramento and DC.
After flooding Berkeley with non-local military recruitment supporters and all around fascist nuts, the right-wing still insists on some sort of "apology" for something that never happened.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., introduced the Semper Fi Act on Feb. 6 to rescind more than $2 million earmarked for Berkeley in the 2008 fiscal year. The bill would transfer the money to the Marine Corps! In a statement Wednesday, DeMint said he had no intentions to pull the legislation. I guess South Carolina will now decide the fate of Berkeley, CA.
Congressman John Campbell, R-Calif., has introduced a companion bill to the Semper Fi Act in the House of Representatives; that bill has 71 co-sponsors.
Assemblyman Guy Houston, R-San Ramon said Wednesday that he is not dropping plans to push forward with a bill to punish Berkeley's stance against Marine recruiting by withholding $3.3 million in state funds from the city.
These assholes will not stop until they blackmail The City Of Berkeley or harm its children by imposing foreign will on the city.
Millions of dollars for Berkeley's children is at stake here!
Liberal, progressive, and radical forces need to join together to ensure that liberal or perhaps slightly progressive stances in our Bay Area communities have the strength to stand against these attacks!
For starters, just drop the fuckers listed above an email pressuring them to drop their bills taking money away from Berkeley's children. (email links are provided above)
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In a funny side note:
Pro-fascist group, Move America Forward; the largest pro-military group in the country, is "countering Berkeley's shameful conduct," by sending three tons of candy, cookies, coffee and beef jerky to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
haha
Well, that just isn't good enough for the right-wing fucks in Sacramento and DC.
After flooding Berkeley with non-local military recruitment supporters and all around fascist nuts, the right-wing still insists on some sort of "apology" for something that never happened.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., introduced the Semper Fi Act on Feb. 6 to rescind more than $2 million earmarked for Berkeley in the 2008 fiscal year. The bill would transfer the money to the Marine Corps! In a statement Wednesday, DeMint said he had no intentions to pull the legislation. I guess South Carolina will now decide the fate of Berkeley, CA.
Congressman John Campbell, R-Calif., has introduced a companion bill to the Semper Fi Act in the House of Representatives; that bill has 71 co-sponsors.
Assemblyman Guy Houston, R-San Ramon said Wednesday that he is not dropping plans to push forward with a bill to punish Berkeley's stance against Marine recruiting by withholding $3.3 million in state funds from the city.
These assholes will not stop until they blackmail The City Of Berkeley or harm its children by imposing foreign will on the city.
Millions of dollars for Berkeley's children is at stake here!
Liberal, progressive, and radical forces need to join together to ensure that liberal or perhaps slightly progressive stances in our Bay Area communities have the strength to stand against these attacks!
For starters, just drop the fuckers listed above an email pressuring them to drop their bills taking money away from Berkeley's children. (email links are provided above)
_____
In a funny side note:
Pro-fascist group, Move America Forward; the largest pro-military group in the country, is "countering Berkeley's shameful conduct," by sending three tons of candy, cookies, coffee and beef jerky to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
haha
posted by shane at 11:06 AM
3 Comments:
Protesting the war and protesting fact that a recruitment office is in a city are two different things. Their argument was flawed from the beginning and any backlash they're receiving from it is their own fault.If they really wanted to make a difference maybe they should step out of their bubble into some of the surrounding towns of the bay area and drop some knowledge on the recruiting offices there(i don't even know why I'm saying that, shutting down a recruiting office isn't doing shit).Maybe these backlashes will teach them to wise the fuck up and realize that not every idea that comes out of their mouthes is revolutionary or right just because they live in Berkeley; just because it was a counter culture hub in the 60's, doesn't mean it is today.
Right because a City Council and its citizenry should have no say in the goings-ons of their city.
That should be left solely up to the military and Senators from South Carolina.
Thats not what I'm saying.Its a given that the political right is filled with assholes that will pull stuff like this.That said,if your gonna start shit,have a point.The annoying part of all this is they brought heat on the people of Berkeley and for what? an argument that wouldn't hold an ounce of water at anyone's table
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